uh oh. I think.

So I opened up my week old chocolate vanilla stout that I dumped on a pale ale yeast cake and found this. Is it just crust? Thats what I think but who knows. Gonna put it in a carboy to clear.

It looks fine to me--and still working--so I wouldn't transfer it now, especially after only a week.

First off, dumping fresh wort on an old yeast cake is not a good practice, as you're dramatically overpitching and you may be pulling over unwanted flavors from the previous beer. In the future, you'd have a better brew if you wash the yeast from the previous batch and pitch into the new batch at the correct rate. But I'll get off that soapbox now . I think your issue may actually be a result if the old yeast cake though, this looks like old hop material to me (of which there would be a lot in a pale ale). Possible that this much hop material made it into the fermenter in your previous beer and has now been stirred into this one? If that's the case, I wouldn't sweat it. Just let it settle out after fermentation has slowed.

Ya thats it. Of course I already transfered it, I also throw out direction. I was where I needed to be as per the hydrometer. It does have a hoppy flavour, that killed the chocolate and vanilla, but I wanted a hoppier stout. I think ill add at bottling. Experiment is the name of the game. As far as over pitching yeast, ya I was a little happy by the end of brewing.thanks for the reply. However the pale ale I made before is awesome.

I ment add vanilla and some chocolate. Whats the worst that can happen. I made beer. Again thanks for the quick reply

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Bottled last night. Man, it tasted amazing. Tge non existing chocolate taste was back. No off flavors from the left over hops. I added more vanilla and I hope that comes back. But really good so far.

bxtzd3 said:

Bottled last night. Man, it tasted amazing. Tge non existing chocolate taste was back. No off flavors from the left over hops. I added more vanilla and I hope that comes back. But really good so far.

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I'm fairly certain your vanilla and chocolate flavours will come through as your beer ages. Hops are always are the forefront when a beer is young, give it time to age and I'm sure it'll be absolutely delicious!

I'd recommend keep a bottle for a year and ses how it tastes like then.